"And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be? ... You'd be nowhere. Why, you're only a sort of thing in his dream! If that there King was to wake you'd go out -- bang! -- just like a candle!"

"Hush! You'll be waking him, I'm afraid, if you make so much noise."

"Well it's no use your talking about waking him when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."

Friday, June 24, 2005

what kind of fool am i?

You are the Fool card. The Fool fearlessly beginsthe journey into the unknown. To do this, hedoes not regard the world he knows as firm andfixed. He has a seemingly reckless disregardfor obstacles. In the Ryder-Waite deck, he isseen stepping off a cliff with his gaze on thesky, and a rainbow is there to catch him. Inorder to explore and expand, one must disregardconvention and conformity. Those in the throesof convention look at the unconventional,non-conformist personality and think What afool. They lack the point of view to understandThe Fool's actions. But The Fool has roots intradition as one who is closest to the spiritworld. In many tribal cultures, those born withstrange and unusual character traits were heldin awe. Shamans were people who could seevisions and go on journeys that we now labelhallucinations and schizophrenia. Those withphysical differences had experience andknowledge that the average person could notunderstand. The Fool is God. The number of thecard is zero, which when drawn is a perfectcircle. This circle represents both emptinessand infinity. The Fool is not shackled bymountains and valleys or by his physical body.He does not accept the appearance of cliff andair as being distinct or real. Image from: MaryDeLave http://www.marydelave.com/